Major museums and galleries across Greece and abroad are hosting a wide range of exhibitions this summer, spanning contemporary installation art, painting retrospectives and major surveys of 20th-century masters.
In Greece, the DESTE Foundation's exhibition space at Hydra's old slaughterhouses is hosting "Until That Day" by Jamaican-American artist Nari Ward, known internationally for sculptural installations built from repurposed everyday objects, running through October 31.
On Andros, the Contemporary Art Gallery of Panachrantou Monastery presents a retrospective of Greek painter Alekos Fassianos through September 30, while Athens's B&E Goulandris Foundation hosts "Landscapes of Memory: What I Kept," featuring 70 selected works by Yannis Psychopedis, through October 4.
The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation in Athens is showing "Postscripts of Time and Space" by Stephen Antonakos, tracing more than six decades of his work in light-based abstraction and neon art, through July 19.
On Tinos, the Costas Tsoclis Museum presents "Thanasis Lalas – Costas Tsoclis: Conversing Through Images and Words," opening July 18 and running through September 30.
Internationally, Paris's Musée d'Orsay is hosting "Renoir and Love: Happy Modernity," co-organized with London's National Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, marking the artist's first major return to France since 1985, through July 19. The Grand Palais presents "Matisse 1941-1954," organized with the Centre Pompidou, running through July 26.
In New York, the Museum of Modern Art is hosting a retrospective of Marcel Duchamp through August 22, while the Whitney Museum's biennial, exploring definitions of American identity through the work of 56 artists, runs through August 23.
In Florence, Palazzo Strozzi presents "Rothko in Florence," pairing more than 70 works by Mark Rothko with the city's Renaissance art tradition, through August 23.
By Katerina Poulopoulou